What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.

When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.

The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.

I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.